cucumber

Example Sentences

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There’s our garden where we grow lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, and other vegetables.

From Literature

Pegula gave an insight into what it is like facing the Kazakh, who she labelled "cool as a cucumber".

From Barron's

"She's really tough to play, she has a massive serve, big groundstrokes, cool as a cucumber, you get nothing out of her," said Pegula.

From Barron's

My favorite are the cucumber–cream cheese sandwiches on whole-grain bread.

From Literature

There's a bone-white lobster, suctioned up for examination at the surface, and a horned sea cucumber whose mast-like spikes collapse into black spaghetti when it arrives on the ship.

From Barron's